Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife. : Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
1623
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Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife. : Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
Created/published
Printed at London : By I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.
Description
[8], 80, 79-174, 173-133 [i.e. 233], [3] p. : diagrams ; (4to)
Associated name
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
North family, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
North family, former owner.
Note
Dedication signed: Geruase Markham.
An enlarged version of part 2 of his: Countrey contentments, in two bookes.
Printer's name from STC.
The last leaf is blank.
P. 233 misnumbered 133.
Also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth, 1623.
Signatures: A-2H⁴.
An enlarged version of part 2 of his: Countrey contentments, in two bookes.
Printer's name from STC.
The last leaf is blank.
P. 233 misnumbered 133.
Also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth, 1623.
Signatures: A-2H⁴.
ESTC staff note
Rpm 12/02/96
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: pp.190-191.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17343
Poynter, Markham, 34.1
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S112049
Poynter, Markham, 34.1
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S112049
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 17343
Folger-specific note
HH140/30. Print show-through in sig. V. Rebound; formerly bound with Markham, G. Markhams farwell to husbandry. London, 1625 (STC 17373), and STCs 17338, 4193 and 15330. Provenance: North family library (?); Puttnick sale, February 11, 1927, no. 166; Harmsworth copy